12-letter words containing r, h, n, e
- hooray henry — a young upper-class man, often with affectedly hearty voice and manners
- hoover apron — a dresslike coverall for women that ties at the waist.
- hop hornbeam — any of several Eurasian and North American trees of the genus Ostrya, of the birch family, especially O. virginiana, bearing hoplike fruiting clusters.
- horatian ode — an ode consisting of several stanzas all of the same form.
- horn antenna — a microwave aerial, formed by flaring out the end of a waveguide
- horn balance — an extension of an aircraft control surface that projects in front of the hinge providing aerodynamic assistance in moving the control
- horned poppy — any of several Eurasian papaveraceous plants of the genera Glaucium and Roemeria, having large brightly coloured flowers and long curved seed capsules
- horned viper — a highly venomous viper, Cerastes cerastes, of northern Africa and extreme southwestern Asia, having a process resembling a horn just above each eye.
- horned whiff — any of several flatfishes having both eyes on the left side of the head, of the genus Citharichthys, as C. cornutus (horned whiff) inhabiting Atlantic waters from New England to Brazil.
- hornlessness — Absence of horns.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
- horrendously — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- horribleness — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
- horse around — a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- horse manure — horse's excrement
- horse marine — (formerly) a marine mounted on horseback or a cavalryman doing duty on shipboard.
- horse nettle — a large, prickly North American weed, Solanum carolinense, of the nightshade family, having violet to white flowers in a few clusters.
- horse racing — a contest of speed among horses that either are ridden by jockeys or pull sulkies and their drivers.
- horse riding — activity: riding on a horse
- horse's neck — a drink of whiskey and ginger ale, served with ice and garnished with a spiral of lemon peel on the rim of the glass.
- horsemanship — the art, ability, skill, or manner of a horseman.
- horseshoeing — Present participle of horseshoe.
- house hunter — a person who house-hunts
- house martin — a small European swallow, Delichon urbica, that builds its nest under the eaves of houses.
- house number — the unique number given to each building on a street which forms part of that building's address
- house-broken — (of a pet) trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places.
- housecleaner — Someone employed to clean a house.
- housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
- housetrained — Simple past tense and past participle of housetrain.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- hovering act — an act forbidding or restricting the loitering of foreign or domestic vessels within the prescribed limits of a coastal nation.
- hucksterings — Plural form of huckstering.
- hudson river — Henry, died 1611? English navigator and explorer.
- hugh loebner — (person) Dr. Hugh Gene Loebner, the instigator of the Loebner Prize in artificial intelligence. E-mail address: Hugh Loebner <[email protected]>.
- human nature — the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind, especially in contrast with other living things.
- humorousness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being humorous.
- hundred days — the period from March 20 to June 28, 1815, between the arrival of Napoleon in Paris, after his escape from Elba, and his abdication after the battle of Waterloo.
- hunger march — a procession of protest or demonstration by the unemployed
- hunger pangs — sudden strong feelings of hunger
- hunter green — a dark green color of yellowish cast.
- hurtlessness — harmlessness; innocence
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrastinine — a white, crystalline, poisonous alkaloid, C 11 H 13 NO 3 , synthesized from hydrastine: used to arrest bleeding, especially in the uterus.
- hydrocyclone — A hydrocyclone is a vessel used for separating two liquids with different densities, by the circular movement of fluid.
- hydrogen ion — ionized hydrogen of the form H + , found in aqueous solutions of all acids.
- hydrogenated — to combine or treat with hydrogen, especially to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound).
- hydrogenates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hydrogenate.
- hydrogenized — Simple past tense and past participle of hydrogenize.
- hydrokinesis — (science fiction): The psychic ability to manipulate or control water.